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...There's something about that unpleasant process of long searches and research that does something for the mind. Computers can lock one into a certain mindset, a certain bias toward quantified data," said Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Stephen E. Ozment...
...dominates a meeting with three extraordinary tools: eyes, hands and voice. The eyes go into action first. They are an intense dark brown. During conversation they will lock onto a listener and not let go until the listener gives some sign of acknowledgment, agreement--or flinches. The eyes are neither harsh nor kind. They are big and strong, and sometimes quick...
...artisan mixing a bath of bamboo pulp magically raises a net-like sheet and suddenly has produced a single sheet of fresh white paper. An architect carves, without pattern, small pieces of wood which lock together without adhesive to form the outline of a model of elaborate Chinese architecture. A kite-maker chats animatedly with a Chinese friend about the strange American visitors she has experienced that day; all the while her hands file meticulously at the thin strips of wood which will flow in symmetric perfection as the body of vividly colored kites...
...series, which was born in the make of a Supreme Court decision that now allows NCAA schools to negotiate their own television contracts, will lock off its second season of 10 Ivy broadcasts September 21, when Cornell visits Franklin Field to take on the Penn Quakers...
...equally possible that Harvard locks the Dexter Gate at night to prevent thieves from entering the Yard. For surely only bright, young Harvard students are intelligent enough to walk to the next gate along Mass. Ave. to gain entry to the historic quadrangle. Don't you know at least 10 thieves who see the lock on the gate, causing them to turn around and give up on trying to get into Harvard...